Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3065 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Monday 2008-06-02 at 10:34 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:

> I have not run across a SLED mailing list but I will have to look again.

Try these links I saved from other threads (they are not mine):

http://forums.novell.com/novell-product-support-forums/suse-linux-enterprise-server-sles/
http://listx.novell.com/mailman/listinfo/suse-sles-e

and another one for docs:

http://www.novell.com/documentation/sled10/index.html


> When I run "Install Software" from the "computer" menu (which I used to
> install acroread etc.), it starts by "Getting install list ...". This
> takes a VERY long time. I'm not sure what it is doing. Is it
> interrogating the packages installed on the hard drive, or trying to
> access a repository on-line? (I have a very fast Internet connection.)
> Eventually, it will show a list of packages. Just wondering why it takes
> so long.

Well, if it is based on suse 10.1, I do not wonder. The problem was solved 
on 10.3 and improved on the coming 11.0, so probably the sles/sled 
versions have "the problem" in full blast.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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